We often hear of people calling for politicians to divulge their income tax statements. But what does that really tell us about how they handle money?
As elected officials, candidates will be handling OUR money. Wouldn't it be nice to know how they handle their own?
Why not reveal the credit scores, or even credit histories, of candidates for public office? This could be completely voluntary, but I'd be quicker to vote for someone with a stellar credit record (especially for an office with financial responsibility) than the guy coming out of his second bankruptcy.
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How a person handles their personal credit tells you nothing. So many things affect credit in good and bad ways, a score can give a wholly inaccurate picture of whether a person would be a good guardian of the treasury. If people simply held politicians accountable at the ballot box these kinds of things wouldn't be necessary.
You want to know about a politician's public record (laws written, enacted, voted against), not their private ones (such as income, credit, etc.). It is entirely possible for someone to suffer personal losses, yet somehow provide for others. And unless you like putting your opinion in someone else's hands, you don't want simple abstractions such as "scores" to stand for all the good/bad someone has done.